Creating alternate shortcut keys for up/down/home/end

Shareni, 3 months ago

Check out kmonad. You can set on-hold caps to switch to an Emacs navigation layer. In that layer you can for example set the n button to send the arrow instead.

It complains in Wayland about using some X11 tool, but works without issues from my limited experience.

pinchcramp, 3 months ago

I see you already have a solution but someone else might find this interesting: keyd is a pretty powerful keyboard remapping utility that works everywhere (X11, Wayland and VTs). Think QMK but done on the OS.

d3Xt3r, 3 months ago

There are several tools for this which work on Wayland. An easy way to do simple remapping would be evremap, your config would look something like this:

<span style="color:#323232;">[[remap]]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">input = ["KEY_LEFTCTRL", "KEY_N"]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">output = ["KEY_DOWN"]
</span>

If you want more complex macros, AutoHotkey style, check out hawck. Note that hawck doesn’t support GUI automation in case you were curious, but if you want something similar you could pair it with KWin scripts and ydotool.

iggames, 3 months ago

Thank you for the suggestions! I’ll dig into these tonight and see what I can get working.

iggames, 3 months ago

Looks like evremap will do what I want, plus a nifty bonus! The following config lets me use CapsLock + N/P/etc to navigate. And if I just tap CapsLock without pressing anything else, it will act as escape.

<span style="color:#323232;">device_name = "Telink Wireless Receiver"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[[dual_role]]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">input = "KEY_CAPSLOCK"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">hold = ["KEY_F19"]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">tap = ["KEY_ESC"]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[[remap]]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">input = ["KEY_F19", "KEY_N"]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">output = ["KEY_DOWN"]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[[remap]]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">input = ["KEY_F19", "KEY_P"]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">output = ["KEY_UP"]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[[remap]]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">input = ["KEY_F19", "KEY_B"]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">output = ["KEY_LEFT"]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[[remap]]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">input = ["KEY_F19", "KEY_F"]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">output = ["KEY_RIGHT"]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[[remap]]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">input = ["KEY_F19", "KEY_A"]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">output = ["KEY_HOME"]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[[remap]]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">input = ["KEY_F19", "KEY_E"]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">output = ["KEY_END"]
</span>

Note: I used F19 because it doesn’t seem to be bound to anything by default. Apparently, a bunch of the other function keys already did things, as described in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/inet

<span style="color:#323232;">$ cat /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/inet | grep FK13
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    key    {      [ XF86Tools         ]       };
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    key   {       [ XF86MailForward       ]       };
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    key   {       [ XF86Word              ]       };      // F2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    key   {       [ XF86MailForward       ]       };      // F3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$ cat /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/inet | grep FK20
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    key    {      [ XF86AudioMicMute      ]       };
</span>

lolcatnip, 3 months ago

I think keyszer would be able to do it, but I don’t think it will work with Wayland. My suggestion, if you don’t mind spending some money, is to get a nice keyboard with programmable firmware like QMK. I wasn’t able to find a comprehensive list but I know Keychron and ZSA sell keyboards that run QMK.

iggames, 3 months ago

Looks like there’s an open issue (with fairly recent activity) for adding Wayland support: github.com/joshgoebel/keyszer/issues/27

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll look into this more.